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Case report| Volume 65, ISSUE 9, e250-e252, September 2012

Spontaneous auricular seroma

      Summary

      We present a case of spontaneous seroma of the ear, which can be encountered in the plastic surgery clinic. We describe our management and briefly review the literature regarding this interesting condition.

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